In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

When you feel life's slow, run !

The sparkling light inside of me multiplied billion times, hoping something beautiful will come along the way.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films, I see it as a sign of weakness.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.