Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and actupon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking andsubsequent actions.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?