We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

We know too much and feel too little.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.