The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

With growth comes change.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

Don't promise me forever, just love me day by day.

I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.