Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?