I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Loneliness comes with life.

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

I like being a woman even in a mans world. After all men cant wear dresses but we can wear the pants.

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.

I dont know how to say this or even if its true. But I love the way you make me feel and I think Im falling for you.

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means you dont have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute..

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder and ultimately impossible to solve with ever more people.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!