When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.