Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law to the intelligence of another day.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

But it has in addition an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

And as I have said it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

I liked the humor of it I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany that does not mean that people were not in good spirits or anything of that sort but something much deeper and more important.

Down the road I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on and humor.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now I'll be a better man a more mature man a wiser man a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world to people of all faiths and backgrounds with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I kind of call myself an atheist I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist I hope.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is to me the real spirit of True Harmony.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply with greater vision with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.