My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

The value of any education cannot be found in a test score. Education’s value is fully realized only after what is learned becomes useful to the learner.

Some people dance with singing rain

End your journey well. Don’t waste your life, and don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan.

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You don't want to put it in your tea, it'll water it down.

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.