My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The importance of education plays a huge role.