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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.