What were all striving for is authenticity a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Some suggestions for you :

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

You cannot be my friend and use the N- word around me. I feel strongly about it… I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

I was once afraid of people saying, Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.