I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

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.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

A dyslexic man walks into a bra.