Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

Never sell your soul.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.