I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

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