Of course I have a personal life.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

You live as long as you dance.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

We are here in this world for each other.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...&gt.