I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

Your cadence is your music.