In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

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.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Everything is alive if your viewpoint is lively.

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

Hope for the best and Prepare for the Worst.

The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?