Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

When the sun is shining, the right song is on, and I'm with people I love.

The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.

My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

When Rick Perry was told about Kim Jong Il, he said, 'I never heard of him, but then again, I don't listen to that rap.'

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.