I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

The fact that you can still stand for God even when some people try to push you to fall, is a proof that you were not DRAGGED Up, but you were BROUGHT Up!

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.