“We can always be a source of light to those around us.”

Life often can feel like shifting sands, but if we choose to pivot with it, there is a revelation that we are not the same people we used to be.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word ‘experienced’.

I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

I’m living proof being born poor doesn’t mean you can’t find financial success.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

We can all be a source of joy in someone’s life.

We can all be a source of joy in someone’s life.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

We change the world with one random act of kindness at a time.

For the weekend, I say wash away your troubles with some bubbles. I’m getting a head start.

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.

I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.

I hate the word surrogate, because what does that mean? Like when people talk about I`m my father’s confident, at one point, they were actually saying major newspapers were publicly were writing that I was Vice Presidential candidate. I`m saying no. I`m a daughter.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.