To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

Even the ears must dance.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.