Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Sunlight is painting.