The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

I practice in my head.

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

I don’t trust air I can’t see.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.