In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

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.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.

Mitt Romney's numbers are crushing Donald Trump's numbers with women. Crushing them.

Get used to disappointment.