After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

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.