There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

The National League is baseball to me.

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.