During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

I really do want to have a child.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

You know what's funny to me? You know what's really funny to me? The fact that you've been calling Lita the walking kiss of death, but tonight.. the walking KOD beat the walking STD.

There are no heroes in chess.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.