Without my mentors there is no Misty.

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.

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.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Stop worrying about what others think. At the end of the day, you have to live with you. Trust yourself. No one has to tell you when it's right. Do what you need to do.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.