There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

The past is a bucket of ashes

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

I always tried to manage my money smart.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.