Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like.

Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am, " said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.