If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Once you label me you negate me.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.