So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
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.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
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.
A lie never lives to be old.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
