The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

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.

You are not a human being if you don't have a curiosity.

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused, that I became Love and Love became me.

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.