The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.