As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?