A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.