Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

I know you can read me, and I can often hear your thoughts too. Makes for an interesting relationship, don't you think?

That which you manifest is before you

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.