My mother loved the Bible.

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

My mother loved the Bible.

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

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

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.

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

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.

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

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

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?

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'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

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.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

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?

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 only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are and not who people think you are.

To me its that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Buddhism is really one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy we lose our humanity.

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

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

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

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be

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

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.