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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.