When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I love music and I love to dance.

Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.