Who said “Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is…”?

“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”

“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.”

“I am not the first straight dancer or the last.”

“To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”

“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”

“The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”