Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Thought is free.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.