There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

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.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.