I aspire to inspire before I expire.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Life is like a camera... Focus on what's important capture the good times and develop from the negative.

This is not about jealousy. It's all about loyalty, honesty and respect.

I am not a one in a million kind of girl. I am once in a lifetime kind of woman.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway

Sometimes those who challenge you most.. Teach you best.

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

There are no edges to my loving now.