If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.