It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.