I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Discipline is liberation.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.