I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: “I’m right

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

I'd hate wearing suits every day.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.