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

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 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.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.