"Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life."

"Living with God is education,Living for God is Service,Living in God is Realization."

"Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it."

"Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas."

"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 believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry."

"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."

"My parents always supported me, but I was put to task. My father thought when I sang, I was sharp; my mother was upset when I wasn't in the first line at recitals."

"When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with."

"During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'"

"I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow."

"I don't like facial hair, and I don't like kissing facial hair, as you cant find the lips."

"Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences."

"In this busy age of fear and anxiety, the remembrance of God and repetition of His name is the one means of liberation that is accessible to all. "

"The age period 16 - 30 is a crucial stage, when man achieves best and struggles hardest to achieve."

"Real Peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity."

"Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred."

"Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects."

"Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God."

"Always try to put yourself in the position of the other and judge your action against the background. Then you will not be wrong."

"Watch your Words, Action, Thoughts, Character and Heart."

"When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action."

"I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important."

"When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you?"

"The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return."

"My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn't."

"The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know."

"The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy."

"A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy."

"I always wanted to be a mother first."

"Sadly, so many arts programs have been eliminated from schools due to budget constraints. These creative outlets are so very important, not only for a child's well-being, but also for self-expression and fun."

"I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say."

"What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'"

"It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about."

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

"If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success."

"When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed."

"If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married."

"I would have been long divorced if I got married."

"A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle."

"Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing."

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

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

"I try to stay positive and be very, very active."

"I walk every day, and I run and do all kinds of that."

"I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues."

"I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight."

"A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money."

"It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money."

"Money can destroy people. It really can."