You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.

In the monastery,  you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.