A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

I am War. I am Death. I am the Unloved God.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority can I don't see any hope of lasting peace.

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.