The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

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.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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

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

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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.