I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Life is often a Labyrinth of Passions without exit.

If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

Good teaching comes from good people.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.