The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.