The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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

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

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.