The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

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

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.