Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"