Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

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.

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.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.