Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.