Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.

Michel de Montaigne

Ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don’t have a form, but they have a will. All they want is to be made manifest. If you can manage to open up your consciousness to an idea of living in a world of abundance, then you can believe that, constantly, ideas are trying to find human collaborators.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Virginia Woolf

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

Theodore Roosevelt

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

H. L. Mencken

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Billy Joel

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Hazel Scott

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara