Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

George Gurdjieff

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

Mike Leavitt

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Petra Kelly

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

J. Cole

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Tupac Shakur

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Marlon Wayans

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

African Proverb

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac