If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

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

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.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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