Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

...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.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

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

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.