I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

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.

Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

I do not love fiction, I love history.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.