When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

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.

It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness.

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

Under a night’s skyFilled with a hundred billion starsIs it so crazy to believeOur paths were destined to cross?

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

I don't need a man in my life.

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.