My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.

Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.