The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

George Balanchine

And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made - when it became obvious that the one male he wanted above all others was never, ever going to be with him.

J.R. Ward

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

Frances Bean Cobain

Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.

Rachel Boston

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

Joel Madden

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Sachin Tendulkar

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Robert Frost