Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth