See the music, hear the dance.

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

People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

Let us take birth in our immortality courageously, the way lion walks in the forest roaring.Let us live the way the tiger looks for its prey, to search the Supreme Power in our godliness.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.