Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.