It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.

Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?