Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.