“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I’ll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got.”

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world’s concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

I was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

Love is an incredible thing but we don’t know love like we should. Unconditional love we don’t know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can’t hold me in these chains. I’ll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin’ my condition is the reason I must change

How you gon’ win when you ain’t right within. Uh uh come again.

It’s silly when girls sell their souls because it’s in.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.