In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

Let peace, concord and unanimity reign among all Christian people...for without peace we cannot please God.

We are souls of unlimited possibilities, yet limited by our minds!

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.