Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.