You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away.
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.