The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside, he wrote.

Kurt Vonnegut

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Robert Indiana

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Benjamin Franklin

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Helen Gurley Brown

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

Orson Scott Card

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey