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.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Freedom lies in being bold.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.