Jests that give pains are not jests.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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