Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

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.

You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.

I no longer fear battles and storms that come in the path but afraid of losing someone that is dear to my heart, to whom without winning battles and passing through storms means nothing to me.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

We tend to find what we look for in other people.