“When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction.”

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.

The most important thing in anyone’s life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There’s a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

I don’t care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don’t have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one’s personal life.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.

The kids today, they think they can dance with their faces.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I’ve got enough nerve to do anything!

If I’ve learned any one lesson from life, it’s this: If you don’t stand for something, you will stand for anything.

When you’re happy, you don’t count the years.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t.

People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.

I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”

We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.