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.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.