Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Man is a child of his environment.

Art expresses man.

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Tone has the living soul.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

When love is deep, much can be accomplished.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Love is grand divorce is a hundred grand.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Its a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.