When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

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.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.