The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Each soul is potentially divine.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.