“If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.”

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

“The greatest strength you can have is to know your own strengths. You've got to figure out what you're good at and make the most of it.”

“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.”

“You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”

“Your Judgment is your own, and when you can look inward and see that you are changed and like what you see, then it is by your own hand that you are judged.”