I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

All have dreams, live for them, They add meaning to LIFE.The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that us can DREAM!!!

While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.