The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Humility is attentive patience.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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 good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Give up trying to make me give up

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.