"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

“Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.”

“So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?”

“The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.”

“I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.”

“It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring”

“There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.”

Source : Francis I, to his mother. Written in the Letter of safe conduct given to the Viceroy of Naples for the Commander Penalosa the morning after Pavia in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 372-375), 1922.

“I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.”

“I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.”

Source : Song: I'm Easy