Nothing is black or white.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

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

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.