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

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.

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.

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

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

On the canvas of life, with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.

You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.

Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.