A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
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.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
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.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
