Those who visit foreign nations but associate only with their own country-men change their climate but not their customs. They see new meridians but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets return home with traveled bodies but untravelled minds.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family friends co-workers business associates and others.

It is curious how from time immemorial man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear while at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

People don't associate red hair pale skin and freckles with beauty.

In the West you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Obviously there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But pole dancing as an art form is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers but if you think about it just in terms of other kinds of dancing they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.