My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

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.

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

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.

Follow the truth and you will never get lost.

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.