Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

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

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.

I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.