I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

You can't really dust for vomit.

I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.