Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Praying is holy act.

There is a fountain who is a King.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.