For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

Dancing is a sweat job.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.