What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

Discipline is liberation.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.