I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

The overall message is that no matter what you want to do in life, don't give up.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.