To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

I'll be stuntin like my daddy.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.