"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."

"I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling."

"To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends."

"I love ponytails. I'm a wash-and-go girl."

"My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her."

"Seriously, I have the best fans ever."

"I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

"Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man."

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect"

"The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty"

"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences"

"Our greatest evil flows from ourselves"

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing."

"There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now."

"At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama's girl growing up. I'm from the South, so there's always something about me when I'm just with my girls or even my mother. There's just a strong connection there."

"I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel."

"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier."

"I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that."

"I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot."

"Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?"

"I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old."

"I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."

"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."

"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

"I only see clearly what I remember."

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

"To live is not breathing it is action."

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

"God made me and broke the mold."

"I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do."

"I don't like defining myself. I just am."

"I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters."

"I had some tough times...i did some bad shit...but i'm still the same girl i used to be"