When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

It's better to be in love than watch it.