The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?