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

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

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

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.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

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.