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.

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

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.