Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.