It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.