You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.
Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people andor artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.