Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Thought is free.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

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.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.