It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

Be with someone that makes you happy... STRIKE THAT...Be Someone that makes you happy.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.