I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

I'm pretty content with what I have but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music for me is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Whoever is content with the world and who profits from its lack of justice does not want to change it.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.