What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.