President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

A life without goals is a bird without wings

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.