I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

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.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.