Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

Life is here to be enjoyed, your smile and your happiness makes it even better".

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.