Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

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.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The unique must be fulfilled.

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