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

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.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

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.

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.

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.

There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!