... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but make time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.