Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
A person preaches well that lives well.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Be that self which one truly is.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
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.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression