I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

What's going on in our country right now is a disgrace. The Hillary Clinton documents released by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake on November the 8th.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.