I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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.
Thought is free.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.