God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

Patience Pays..Is true! But the greater truth is that it takes advance payment before it pays you in return!

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we’d never go hungry. (Syn)

There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.