The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!

I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself.

I believe having a healthy emotional will help in your ability to communicate and to connect to others. We have to learn how to express our feelings especially the negative ones.

Never settle... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.

Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

Our every thought reflects our level of awareness, consciousness, and love for this amazing world that we call home.

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.