The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.

The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts.

Study yourself and develop your personal inspiration routine, applying it to your life every day to help you create the extraordinary life you deserve.

We are here on earth for a while.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.