Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

A Fiat Panda, it's the best car in the world.

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.