We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Genius is sorrow's child.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.