Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

John Green

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moli

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

Willem Dafoe

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Andy Warhol

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Polly Toynbee

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Toba Beta

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

Jillian Michaels

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Mike Royko

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Frantz Fanon