"Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other."

“I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

Source : "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

“I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.”

“The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.”

“It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.”

“The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

“None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.”

“I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.”

Source : Quoted in John Burke, Rogue's Progress: The Fabulous Adventures of Wilson Mizner (1975)

“Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.”