So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives