Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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

Thought is free.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

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.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.