Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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.

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.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.