Tragedy plus time equals humor.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Apathy is so hard not to feel in this world that I see it and the devil walking hand in hand ruining our world. We can take more control by being conscious to start with.

If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.