If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

You can have anything you want

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

When things are easy, I hate it.

How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'