The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

I think it comes in cycles for Brandy [Burre] and for many women. You want to take care of your home, making it as good as possible for your kids and for yourself, and then eventually you feel trapped and you want to break out of that. You want to be someone else and you want the world to look at you as something else. Eventually, you come back again. The cycles are very much a part of her life.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.