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

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.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

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.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!