I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

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.

The spirit of life is the spirituality of soul.

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.