All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.