“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.”

“You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being. ”

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”

“ Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery”

“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”

“At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!”