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

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.