Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

I am not to be defined. I am all things. I am the queen of everything. Every woman is.

There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight!

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

You're only as good as the people you have around you.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.