"I'm not a perfect person. I'm a flawed person. But I'm trying to be a good person."

"I've learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades, and there had better be a enduring love to take its place."

"I've learned that it is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

"I'm a human being. And I'm trying to make my way in the world, just like everybody else."

"I'm a teacher. I've been a teacher all my life. I teach through my writing, through my speaking, through my singing, through my dancing, through my acting."