Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

There's a point where you have to take charge of yourself and what you allow in your space.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

As far as my personal life my go to person is my husband.

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes.

I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

Conflicts in relationships are as natural as breathing. While conflicts lead to healthy relationships, they can throttle us if they are not addressed at the appropriate time.

In any circumstance, call on God.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.