Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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

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

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

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.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.