All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Be that self which one truly is.