It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.

He’s drowning, suffocating under the weight of my darkness and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

The toughest competition you can ever face is between you and your emotion.would you get the best of it or let it get the best of you

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.