Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.