I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

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.

Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Love brings the turnaround.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.