Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.