There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.