I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

I want to be remembered as a passionate professional and compassionate human being.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.