“Contribution is the key to ultimate fulfillment!”

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.

Success without fulfillment is failure.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes for you.

If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Investing in the science of food is truly an investment in our future.

People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that gift and even more die never releasing it.

I’ve been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Because I was in such good shape, my fatigue level never reached the point of physical exhaustion that contributes to mental exhaustion and, ultimately, to combat fatigue.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t contribute to your growth.