Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
