In the end, all you have is your reputation.

The divine is in all things.

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.