How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.

There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."