In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.