It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

It is only when we meet the needs of the people around us that God meets our needs

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.