“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

You can accomplish great things.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Don’t confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

You were born to win.

You are the only real obstacle in your path to fulfilling it.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Too many of us are taking our dreams to our graves. Songs that were never sung. Poems never written. Businesses never started. Relationships never formed. Books never written. Dreams never lived.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

In a dream like haze, the moment you left still spins on repeat like a broken record.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.