I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

I love being Italian.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.