Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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

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

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.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.