You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

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.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie

If you love people, you have no desire to judge them.

Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, in exactly this moment, we shift from living for tomorrow to appreciating today.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.