"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'"

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that."

"In the depths of adversity, the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"Love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name."