Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

Don't miss your life.

I'm painfully middle class.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

May your sacred star guide you every day of the New Year.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.

I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Tell me about the rains that washed and wore you down. About the travels you took to find yourself and how you left a part of you in every place, yet somehow always came back more complete.