It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.