I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?

I knew when I got into self-publishing I would have to compete with other authors' words. I did not, however, know that I was going to have to compete with so many sculpted abs!

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.

A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just His way of letting you realize, He saved you from the wrong one

Failure is the new success.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.