I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.