All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
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.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
