Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

I write-down to speak-up.

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

You can't think. You just have to do things.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

I believe God always listens to our prayers.

Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.