"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything" ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Dream in a pragmatic way"~ Aldous Huxley

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express" ~ Brenda Ueland

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive." ~ Merce Cunningham

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love" ~ Maya Angelou

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of …

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” ~ Pablo Picasso

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth" ~ Jalaluddin Rumi

"Music is the greatest communication in the world.  Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it" ~ Lou Rawls

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free" ~ Jalaluddin Rumi