“No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.”

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back.

It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don’t know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: ‘I don’t think I can. I don’t think I will.’… To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.

Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.