A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

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.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.