My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
The future ain't what it used to be.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Genius is sorrow's child.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
