The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
I have actually five honorary degrees.
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it. '
There is an energy within. . . pure strength. . . the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes. . . once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you.
I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Because we do not rest we lose our way. . . Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.