When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing

Lovers should also have their days off.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.