I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

Everything is nothing.

Compassion is a verb.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.