Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

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.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.