I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

Greatness is in every single one of us, but the problem is that most people fail to show theirs to the world.

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

I didnt get this physique by not eating tacos.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.