It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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.

Thought is free.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.