I lost many a role to actresses who couldnt do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.