Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen - that is my right, too.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to.

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

I believe that laughter is our greatest export