You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

Falling in love IS bizarre and creepy

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.