"If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight."

“I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.”

Source : "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers". Book by Xiaolu Guo, 2007.

“I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.”

“What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.”

“There is darkness in every heart.”

“A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.”

Source : "A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything". Rediff On The Net Interview, www.rediff.com. 1997.

“Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?”

“After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.”

“Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.”