As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

The telling of a lie is not only a sin or disgrace

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.