I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

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.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.