We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

stay too closeand she will leave.stay too farand she will leave.distance is too delicate a thing.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Experience is not the enemy: It is the hubris that is often a by-product of experience that is our greatest enemy.

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.