If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.

Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.

Don't ever get wrapped up with what other people think you should look like.

We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

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Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.