You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don’t want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and … - Oprah Winfrey

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other — to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.