I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

The only thing I have to do in life is die. Everything else is a choice... including breathing.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.