I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

Don't miss your life.

I'm painfully middle class.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.