Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
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.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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.
