We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

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.

Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.

Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day, ' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.