Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

I disagreed with the conduct of the war, with bombing civilians, categorizing everyone as the enemy or simply as armed men, with the racism and the disregard for those people.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

I'd rather be right than President.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.