“What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.”

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn’t matter what your Mama did. It doesn’t matter what your Daddy didn’t do. You are responsible for your life.

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, Time to change course.

I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Move with the flow. Don’t fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don’t try to carry it.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you’ll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Everybody has a story. And there’s something to be learned from every experience.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that’s why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.

There was a really strong and intense bond with a lot of those early fans, some of whom became what we call lifers.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

The reality in terms of the way the music has connected globally has exceeded what any of us could’ve imagined.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

I can connect Nothing with nothing