My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

Friendship, a covalent bond, powerful and without any expectations.

My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

Shhh,” he murmured against her mouth. “Don’t talk. Don’t think. Just feel.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.