Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.