Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Courage is grace under pressure.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

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

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.