I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

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

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.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.