I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.