There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
