Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The value system of a country comes from the pulpit.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.