Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.