Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.