Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The body says what words cannot.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

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.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The body never lies.

Learn by practice.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

The body is a sacred garment.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Misery is a communicable disease.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

There is only one you in all time.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual as we think so will we act.

To me a building if its beautiful is the love of one man hes made it out of his love for space materials things like that.

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

If you feel depressed you shouldnt go out on the street because it will show on your face and youll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action Keep the channel open.

Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

The unique must be fulfilled.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.