I will never reach perfection.

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

The quality of your relationships and the role they play in your life will influence who you will become.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

You can be in love with solitude

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

I hate bananas. I just hate them. But I also think a banana suit is the funniest fruit costume a person can wear.

George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.