"To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy."

"My father was Presbyterian."

"Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else."

"You have to prepare yourself first before you can create any kind of change for your loved ones."

"It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions."

"When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'"

"Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships."

"Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain."

"You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on."

"When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive."

"A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know."

"I don't eat a lot. I think we overeat."

"Getting older is a fact of life."

"If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain."

"I guess I came to know this about myself: for better or worse, I don't give up."

"My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct."

"I just wanted to be normal. I wanted to have a normal life. I wanted to have children. And when I was picked out of a chorus line and cast in a TV series, I got anxious, so I took the bull by the horns and went to see a psychologist. And it was the greatest move I ever made."

"What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself."

"I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo."

"I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation."

"In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient."

"By living mindfully, you understand that there are many transitions in life. You just go through them."

"I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian."

"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."

"Women, by nature, are a certain way; they think a certain way. Women are web thinkers. We think wide... Why? Because we have children. Why? Because we were born as women to have children and to be able to take care of them. We do so many things at once."

"People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it."

"I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men."

"Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be."

"I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?"

"Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going."

"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful."

"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare."

"All I ever wanted to be was happy."

"When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse."

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

"If we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine."

"Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world."

"The smile you give is the smile you get back."

"Life is a dance with the cosmos."

"It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child."

"Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old."