A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
