There's a point where you have to take charge of yourself and what you allow in your space.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

As far as my personal life my go to person is my husband.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes.

I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

.....if he’s not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he’s not good enough to be with you.

Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.