You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

Stop trying to 'fix' yourself

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

There's a guy out there who will want to tell everyone that he is your boyfriend. Quit goofing around and go find him.

I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.