Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.
The moment one discovers one's true purpose in life, one will never dare to live one's life trying to impress others or worrying about what others think.
Those who positively matter in your life, would never dare you to go out of your way to please them and displease yourself.
If life doesn't give up on you in good times, why then would you dare to give up on it in tough times?
Never dare to sell your soul for money, because no amount of wealth would buy you an air conditioner in hell.
