All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A lie never lives to be old.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.