Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

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

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

If we read, we shall renew our mind.

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.