Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Music is the soul food.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.