Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.

Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same.

Look after your body and your body will look after you

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.