Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

Harry Shum, Jr.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Zhang Ziyi

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Bill Sands

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Source Unknown

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.

H. Rider Haggard

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

Cassandra Clare

The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.

Blue Balliett

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Donald Trump

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin