God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence