We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

God has infinite blessing for all mankind.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)

Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.