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

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Thought is free.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

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.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.