Goldie Hawn

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.”

“I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian.”

“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.”

“Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.”

“My mother loved the Bible.”

“If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.”

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

“I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.”

“I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.”

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

“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.”

“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.”

“Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.”

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