The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

The truth is that the naysayers in your life can never be fully satisfied. Whether you hide or shine, they'll always feel threatened because they don't believe they are enough. So stop paying attention to them.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.