There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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.