I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Common sense is not so common.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.