You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Since everything is destructible including life, you should, therefore, make the best out of life while it lasts.

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.