Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

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.

What good were real feelings anyway?

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

You are perfectly imperfect.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.