There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.

When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.

I was a super shy, shy kid, so that was kind of my way of expressing myself - to mimic what I saw on TV. I was a bit of a weird kid, but luckily my parents encouraged it.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.