If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.
The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!
I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.
Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence]. . . would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.
I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.
Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you. ” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.
If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.
As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.
There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.