No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

Obviously it's difficult not to compare one record success-wise, or sales-wise, or whatever, but I think you're always going to have moments - whatever record you've got - of insecurity.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.