The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

We often don’t realise how much strength we have until challenged to use it. Once tested, we know how strong or weak we are.

Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Wander with intentinto a garden glorious.Walk with double briskupon edenic paths.Flee the cursing fearthat lights upon your eye.Seize the twisted dreamthat strangles earth and sky.

Most women beg me to lick them, and I give it to you for free and you push me away, ” he said with a fake pout on his face.“You’re crazy.” I giggled“I’m the good kind of crazy, though.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.