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

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

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

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

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

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

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

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A good liar must have a good memory.