My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

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.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.