You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I am happy and I’m single.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.