Thought is free.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

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.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Courage is grace under pressure.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

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

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