Passion is like waves; it comes and goes. Compassion is the constant flow.
I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time.
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.
If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.
These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.
The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.