There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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.
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.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
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.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.