When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Once you label me you negate me.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Give up trying to make me give up
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Dare to risk public criticism.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
