Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.