I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

Skating is now retro and hip.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

To confront death every day, to see it for yourself, you have to love the living

Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.