His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Jay Garner

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Ezra Pound

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

George A. Smith

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Groucho Marx

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong

Marvin Gaye

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Johann von Goethe

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Kin Hubbard

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield