Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.