The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.