A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

Ministry is received, not achieved.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.