You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

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.

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

Head up, heart open. To better days!

A little hope and love now and thenWise and beautiful, more than often.

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.

The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.