We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

I create my own heartbreaks!

If you fight you won't always win. But if you don't fight you will always lose

Habit is the daily battleground of character

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.