I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I believe it’s imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.