We asserted ourselves as a music community and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

I look for the humanity in people however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

We all need ways to express ourselves and poetry is one of mine.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with ourselves poetry.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more peace and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.