My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

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.

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.