We are all just a work in progress..

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader..

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside..

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short..

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong..

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me..

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them..

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I ch….

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life..

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself..

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences..

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection..

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God..

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win..

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that eve….

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me..

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. U….

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it..

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward..

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself..

Believe in yourself when nobody else does..