Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.