I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

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.

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.