Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.