Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
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
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
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.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
