Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

Don't miss your life.

I'm painfully middle class.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

You can do it if you believe you can.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.