I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.