When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

I’m totally myself.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I always wanted to be loved.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

We boil at different degrees.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.