I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.