If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

For there are no limits to the stars, their numbers infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by the stars. An amount too boundless to count.

Love is like a piece of chocalate. It looks and tastes good, but it's dark. What really matters is the inside.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Great writers create

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

I'm way too focused to let anything stop me.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

It's harder to read code than to write it.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.