The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

Anyone - your daddy or mine, your ancestor or mine, your god or mine - who bays for blood of "infidels" is an a***ole. And non-divine.

Seek grace and manna daily.

Marriage is our last best chance to grow up.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.