a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Rejoice in small things and they will continue to grow

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.