What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

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 often want to drink a cup of moonlight so that I may calm my heart and soothe my mind.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

Friends are the best therapy.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.