Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.