And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?