I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

You’re crazy.”“No one sane is this awesome, ” he said as he pointed a finger at himself

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.