Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and joy and a fair share of beauty

Never let them give you their own branding upon your name, brand yourself to avoid being falsely branded.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

The United States cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.