A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

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.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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.?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I am not now That which I have been.

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