Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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 sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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.

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.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains.