We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side.

Focusing is about saying No.

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

Don't start something that you cannot finish.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.