I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

Keep your circle of friends small, tight and right

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Fire is a good companion for the mind.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.