A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Humility is attentive patience.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
That which costs little is less valued.
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.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.