Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Freedom lies in being bold.