That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
A good liar must have a good memory.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Be that self which one truly is.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A person preaches well that lives well.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
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.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.