Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.