Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The body never lies.

Learn by practice.

The body is a sacred garment.