Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
