Larry David makes me laugh.

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.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.