God has a plan and God is in control of everything

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.

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

I had a Shiatsu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.