Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

The truth is everything.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.