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 see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

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

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

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.

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.