A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
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.
Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
