Art is an elastic sort of love.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble, many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.