I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Boards don't hit back.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.