When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.