Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

I have schedules that separate everything.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.