First we have to believe, and then we believe.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

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

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.