I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

Excellence requires discomfort.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.