We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

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

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

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

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.

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

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