Jests that give pains are not jests.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
An idea is salvation by imagination
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
