Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

A friend who shares is a friend who cares.

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.