A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.