I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to 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

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

It feel like winning the cup final, if that's what it feels like

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Crispus Attucks, who said, Don't shoot till you see the whites! Never got a dinner!

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!