Vanessa L. Williams quotes:

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  • I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am!

  • I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  • Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

  • I love the French horn.

  • You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  • I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

  • I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

  • I go out and salsa with friends, especially in the summertime. Now that's incredible cardio!

  • And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  • Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.

  • And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  • Broadway is really my life.

  • I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  • In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.

  • Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

  • Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.

  • Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

  • Success is the sweetest revenge.

  • You wondered how you'd make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you're looking for, is the one thing you can't see.

  • Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  • The greatest thing about being a mother so young, I had my first child at 24, is that I cook, I clean, I love to be independent and kind of hate to be waited on and hate to be taken care of. So, I guess that demonstrates my fiercely independent nature which is kind of anti what I portray on a weekly basis.

  • And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.

  • Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.

  • I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

  • I'm not perfect, but I'm focused when I have a goal.

  • Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

  • My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  • The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  • There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

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