The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

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

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

What others will think?” has killed the most dreams, Living the mainstream has never been the mainstream, Free people know how to live without remorse, They know ships aren’t meant to stay at shores.

The sun set, which is everyday magic...

To see great result let your conversations reveals ultimate priority of restoring the kingdom

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

A lot of my opposition to President Obama's policies had behind them 5, 6, 7 years of bad policies that made America less safe in my regard.