Jests that give pains are not jests.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Freedom lies in being bold.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.