Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The American people have not become heartless.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.