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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

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.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Give up trying to make me give up

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

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.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.