The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.