When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

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.

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

Refuse to be average.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.

I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.