Silence is an ornament for women.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.

The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, 'Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.'

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.