Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

Criss Angel

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Martha Graham

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Leo Tolstoy

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

John Sheffield

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Fanny Brice

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Aldous Huxley

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Jason Bateman

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Theodore Bikel

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.

Damon Runyon