A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Take the risk! You find the right road!

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.