I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.