There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them— never bad, often good, sometimes hard.

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.

I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.