A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Success consists in the climb.

Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.