"Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work."

"You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice"

"Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better."

"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?"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Getting older is a fact of life."

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

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

"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."

"Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell."