Set fire to the broken pieces

You must become aware of the need to serve humanity with your gift

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.