The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

We're asleep until we love.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.