There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it then that bridge ought not to be built.

Each generation must discover its mission fulfill it or betray it in relative opacity.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

I haven't really got any hidden talents.

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

We are all winners here.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

I climb mountains.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.