Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.