My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.

Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity.

Give and take is business not bhakti

They do say breastfeeding is nature’s lipo.

When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.

I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.