We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

You have to be resilient.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.