“Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.”

Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don’t change?

We’re all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

What goes around comes back around.

If I hadn’t gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective, it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Have your own life before you become somebody’s wife.

I’m a workaholic and I don’t believe in ‘no.’ If I’m not sleeping, nobody’s sleeping.

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

As long as we keep on reminding ourselves how far we have come. – We’ll be okay.