I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi

Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

I loved the college experience of studying.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

Nature hates calculators.

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.