You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Honour the difficult.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.