The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't.

You need to grow up, and realize what it is you need right now, and what you can live without.

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.