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.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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 have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I am not now That which I have been.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.