When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

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.

You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)

Never give up on the fight until you win the belt.

The customer always comes first.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.