I have two loves: my country and Paris.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.