I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

If practice makes you perfectshouldn't good behavior be addedto the curriculum

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

I'm usually the last person to know.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.