“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.”

“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”

Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows.

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Your child needs your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

Your diet is not only what you eat.

To the world, you are a mother, to your family you are the world.

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”