I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!