Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

Live from the heart of yourself

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.