One is born to be a great dancer.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dance is music made visible

Without toil, would there be any tears?

There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy.

Oh my, " she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

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Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.