Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Everything is an illusion.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

I'm just a vessel of information.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.