A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.