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

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.