I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

I stand up to people.

Art is about paying attention.

My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.