The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Goldie Hawn
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.
I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.
You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.
Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.
I do eat a lot of greens. I eat healthy, but I'm not a vegetarian.
Getting older is a fact of life.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You're also more rested - you're not as reactive.
So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.
'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.
We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.
Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.
It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money.
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.
It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.
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.'
To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.
To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
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.
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.
If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.
I try to stay positive and be very, very active.
I always wanted to be a mother first.
A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.
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.
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
I don't like facial hair, and I don't like kissing facial hair, as you cant find the lips.
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.
A fearful child cannot learn.
It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.
People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.
Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me.
We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.
It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.
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.
