Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

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.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Sunlight is painting.

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

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.