I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Nothing is black or white.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.