I believe that dance communicates man’s deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Ted Shawn

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There’s a law against it.
George Murphy

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he’ll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn’t know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
Katherine Dunham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.
Katherine Dunham

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
Mary Wigman

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny’.

Isaac Asimov

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William Jame

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
Sigmund Freud

When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”

Sydney J. Harris

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

William Hastie

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

Alfred Adler

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.

Mother Teresa

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. Walter Payton

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems Mahatma Gandhi

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.