Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.

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.

In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.