Get my swan costume ready.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

What you give away with love will always remain with you.

A thought enters

Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?