My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Do not be unkind to others just because you are passing through difficult times because they are not responsible for your misery.

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.