A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

A lie never lives to be old.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Nothing is black or white.