I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

Every girl likes to be thought of and made to feel special.

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Value is more expensive than price.

What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!

My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

Make something beautiful before you are dead.