We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

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

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.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

That which costs little is less valued.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

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.