By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.

I never thought about being No. 1. I just kept trying to be No. 1.

I feel lucky because most of my friends aren't married. So I don't feel that, 'oh, step on it, you're thirty.'

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.