I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Gratitude raises your awareness and focus and it can inspire you to achieve better for yourself and the people around you.

We are walking through a field of burning bushes, of the everyday heroes God puts in our lives.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.