Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.