You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
There is no time of life past learning something.
I think I let go of the need for approval,. . . It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself. . . I could do everything based on how I want to do things.