If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

You weren't born to be a spectator of others while they live life to the fullest. You too were born to make the world a better place, so put your talents into good use.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

You never win any games you don't play.

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.