We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

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!

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

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

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

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.