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.

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.

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

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.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.

It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you!

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.