Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

Don't miss your life.

I'm painfully middle class.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.