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.

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.

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.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing