Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

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.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.