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

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!

People believe marriage will make us better.