I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.