I grew up in an all-white community.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

With growth comes change.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

Jesus Christ, the holy Saviour is the Great Physician of Souls.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?