It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

Play the last measure very softly.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

I danced from the moment I could stand.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Get my swan costume ready.

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Where there is no heart there is no art.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.