I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.