Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

When the sun sets do not despair

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification