A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."