"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."

"If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."

"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."

"It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious, virtuous, with real manhood, hardworking and sincere. Besides all these qualities, he was lenient with others, tolerant, kind, cheerful and praiseworthy and perhaps he would joke and tease his companions. He was just, truthful, smart, pure, magnanimous and present-minded; his face was radiant as if he had lights within him to illuminate the darkest of nights; he was a great man by nature who was not educated in a school nor nurtured by a teacher as he was not in need of any of this."

"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

"Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining."

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

"Without kindness there can be no true joy."

"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

"Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous."

"Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful."

"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"

"Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest."

"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."

"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."

"Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!"

"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."

"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."

"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."

"All great peoples are conservative."

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."

"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"

"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."

"In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom."

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."

"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."

"Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara."

"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."

"Biography is the only true history."