My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

Just embrace your hair! I really feel like I am not an advocate for people doing what I do. I'm an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.