I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.