As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

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.

Books are a stairway to knowledge

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

There comes a time in every woman's life where she will decide to eat cookie dough. It is when and how that truly defines her.

I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.