Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

You have to be resilient.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.