Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.

Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important.

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.

There's no prayer like desire.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.