Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

I let go of all that does not serve me with gentleness and ease.

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.