Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done