No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Boards don't hit back.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.