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

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

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

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

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

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.