I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Scars are proof we can can survive

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.