If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

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.

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".