All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

A little crazy is good

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Most people do not pray they only beg.

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.

Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.