We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

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.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Once you label me you negate me.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Boards don't hit back.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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?