The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.

The darkness is needed for the light to shine

Beloved, if you refuse to go within...you will, sadly, go without.

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.