every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

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

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

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.

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

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

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