Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

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

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

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

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?

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.