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

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.

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.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated.

The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed