Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler..

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible for….

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so..

Never Explain Anything.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

There will always be an underground..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

I couldn't be happier..

Africa is on the rise..

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated..

You get what you get when you get it..

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken..