Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

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.

Dance is music made visible

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it.

Do not lose your heart, " she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Content Is King, Distribution is Queen

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.