Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Effective action is always unjust.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The future ain't what it used to be.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

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.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Common sense is not so common.

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.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Give up trying to make me give up

A lie never lives to be old.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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.