The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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.
Freedom is from within.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Once you label me you negate me.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.