Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

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.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

Hey moon, please forget to fall down

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.