Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Clean your home first before complaining about others.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

When it comes to exacting revenge, it gets harder and harder to top yourself each successive time

Let us not compare the genius with the clever

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.