The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Don't be afraid to say "No". It's empowering. Remember, a "Yes" is a commitment. Give them wisely.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way

Winners have to absorb losses.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.