Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'