Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.