I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Only the people who are born of God can become victors and overcomers in this evil world

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.