I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.

If a man loves you . . . he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancée, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

We're reborn every second, every moment.