Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

I haven't got time for the pain.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Christians are a polyphonic people.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.