Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Freedom is from within.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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