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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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!

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Humility is attentive patience.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Nothing is black or white.