Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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 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.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

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