Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth

Mark Twain

the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

C.S. Lewis

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Jean Paul Richter

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Cristina Saralegui

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Morgan Matson

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Francoise Sagan

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Che Guevara

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

Juno Temple

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Talcott Parsons

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher