I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.