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

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

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

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.

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

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.