I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Life loves the liver of it.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

When you know better you do better.

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

When you know better you do better.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.