To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

I danced from the moment I could stand.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Get my swan costume ready.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Where there is no heart there is no art.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.