Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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.
Common sense is not so common.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.