I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.