Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight.

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.