I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.