The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
You alone are enough.
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.