"As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power."

“Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant”

“What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

“Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!”

“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.”

“I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.”

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

“But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.”

“I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.”

Source : "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.