Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

That which costs little is less valued.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.