Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Your reasons for not loving me just make me love you more.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.