When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

No man has the right to say to his country

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

In life there is not time to grieve long.