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 see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

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.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

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

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!