If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

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.

If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.