I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

My motto - sans limites.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Nothing really frustrates me to the point of hatred. It's not the worth the energy.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.