“It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn’t keep them from popping.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children.

So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’

Since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

Like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

History is made every day.

We should all be more aware of what’s going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

I would say that kids are great in many ways.

The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age.

To show that you truly care, you listen.

Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.

We didn’t have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.

They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.