The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

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.

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.

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.

In life, I always thought that an Atheist values life much more than any follower of any religion. I believe in that now more than ever. Hell has strengthened that opinion.

It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

Because being so dependent on people scares me.