We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

It is not yet a feeling that points her in a direction. It is just the feeling of a vacuum, a void waiting to be filled.

Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

My man prefers meat over the bone.