Genius is sorrow's child.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.