The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.