I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.