When God loves you, what can be better than that?

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Everytime I share Jesus Christ, I feel like a superhero!

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.