When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.