When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you. - Mariah Carey
When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise. - Mariah Carey
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.' - Mariah Carey
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it. - Mariah Carey
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. - Whitney Houston
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it. - Whitney Houston
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? - Whitney Houston
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me. - Whitney Houston
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. - Whitney Houston
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. - Whitney Houston
I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing. - Whitney Houston
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. - Whitney Houston
I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay? - Whitney Houston
My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child. - Whitney Houston
Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems. - Whitney Houston