You should've seen my big hair in the 80's, that was a real project.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.