I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.