How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

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.

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

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.

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen.

I love you always. Time is nothing.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once