"Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh."

"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it."

"I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli."

"I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy."

"A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'"