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

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

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

"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?'"

"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."

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

"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."

"My father was Presbyterian."

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

"I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese."

"I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin."

"A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work."

"I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer."

"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young."

"My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are."

"We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings."

"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."

"What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?"

"I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy."

"I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it."

"Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me."

"'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue."

"After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots."

"Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now."