You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

I'd take my clothes off for chocolate and peanut butter.

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

I live by great faith.

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.