My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Success is overrated.

To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.