Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

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.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Moonlight is sculpture.

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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.