Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

The light ought to shine for the darkness to fade.

There's the light. There's the dark. And there's that bit in between... where you're trying to find the switch.Think about where you are.

Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.