Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty.

Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.