The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Classical ballet will never die.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.

Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.