Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Freedom is from within.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Thought is free.

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

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.