Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'