Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Boards don't hit back.