The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.