The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

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

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

One cannot live without inconsistency.

The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.