Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

I love running and I will always run.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.