I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

I still look like a duck.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.