I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.