You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

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

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

People just want to know that they matter.

You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”