Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Don’t neglect your calling all in the name of employment

You touched my heart...ever so softlyand I realizedtears had never been...merely saltand the rainOh the Rain!had never been merely water.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me