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

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.

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.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful.