It is a long road from conception to completion.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself