If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have

What if destiny doesn't care?

People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive.

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.