My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.