You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

My motto - sans limites.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Work on yourself more than you do on your job.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.