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.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
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.
Each soul is potentially divine.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
