You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

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?

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.

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.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

In my imagination, this world is an amazingly beautiful, peaceful, loving and kind.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

I just finished running, and I look and smell like nothing very pleasant. Why, oh, why did he have to bump into me now?

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.