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

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

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.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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.

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

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Boards don't hit back.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.