It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.