Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.