Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.