Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

If you can't keep control your emotions, you can't keep save your relationships..,

Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.