To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.

Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.