The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support.

I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

How about having a properly equipped crash cart?

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

The only true source of inspiration is to be an inspiration.

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.