My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.

Jesus didn't die on the cross to BLESS our life, He did it to CHANGE our life.

You are my greatest gift and I seal it with a kiss.

To be the best you have to beat the best

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

You need to earn the right to promote.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

Bring it,muthafuckas.Bring it.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.