Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

A lie never lives to be old.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.