The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.