Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

True art consists in concealing art.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

Be not a person only, be a message to the world.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.