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

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.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

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.

God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.

If God is so concerned about the state of truth in any society, I think that should begin to concern us as well.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.