A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Thought is free.
A jug fills drop by drop.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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.
Humility is attentive patience.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.