When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.