For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

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

A good liar must have a good memory.

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

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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.

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

Sunlight is painting.