I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.