Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Funniness is genetic.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.