It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

I'm a business person at heart.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.

The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.