He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A jug fills drop by drop.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
That which costs little is less valued.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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 cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Genius is sorrow's child.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
