When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

A woman can be in charge!

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

Every actor has their stalker.

Whatever you believe in your heart, you will receive it.

There is no better example for our children, then the one we set before them every day

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.