“As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and ...” — Ruth St. Denis Quote

“As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.”

“It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.”

“We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.”

“The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.”

“Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.”

“Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.”

“We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.”

“It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.”

“Sometimes you forget that you are people's hero as well. People do look up to you and I'd forgotten that because, to me, I am just a normal lad.”

“While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.”

“American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.”

“Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.”