In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

That which costs little is less valued.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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.

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 don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Humility is attentive patience.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.