I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Family is the only why of life

The place of happiness you can return to is in the arms of the one you love.

And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.