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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Sunlight is painting.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

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.

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

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.