I feel a strange sensation brewing inside of me. It tickles my throat and forces my lips into a grin. Before I can stifle it, I giggle. And then I laugh.

We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family.Yes, I think. I am just a woman.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

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