Shake what ya momma gave ya and most of all be sassy

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.

Were Gods love is present there is always hope.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.