I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

One you've danced, you always dance.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person

That lovely face sets off a fire inside me that isn't ever supposed to burn.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.