I get a little behind during Lent but it comes out even at Christmas.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns the challenge becomes what to do next?

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Pray thee spare thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

Women can't do everything at the same time we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic that really comes out of the culture that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Your law may be perfect your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill and yet without individual acquaintance with men their haunts and habits the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult slow and expensive.

Wisdom prepares for the worst but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Wisdom too often never comes and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.