You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

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.?

Dare to risk public criticism.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Thought is free.

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.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.