Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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!

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.