You live as long as you dance.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

As long as my ballets are danced, I will live.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.