The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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

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.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

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

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.