“These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.”

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up

I’ve never eaten a taco, and I don’t plan to.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would’ve stepped in – six kids, five of them boys – and that’s heroic.

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don’t even speak Spanish at all.

Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.