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 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.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.

Expectations are made to be exceeded!

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.