I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

Say not, 'I have found the truth, ' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

I want to start where language ends.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The world is a living image of God.