Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion

Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance

The body is a sacred garment

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.