There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours

It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing away your life.

there is no gift or asset that is so precious than to have another 24hours to prove how worthy or not our existence under the sun is. leave a distinctive footprint each day

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.