Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

In my heart, a live fireLike the morning sun Burning my mind, to purify the soulThat is my love.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments…And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving.

There is grace for every good action.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.