It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

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

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.