For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

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.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.