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

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

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.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

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.

I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that doesn't healBut the words are forgottenSo is a big part of me

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Modesty and chastity are twins

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.