I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, the…

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

'I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now.'