I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

Every paper girl needs at least one string.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.