Valerie Harper

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.

Rhoda Morgenstern gave a wonderful impetus and propulsion to my career.

Mine's called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. It's incurable. It's terminal. And it's in a tiny space - a huge area all around the brain and up and down the spine. But it's small area where the spinal fluid is. It's microscopic. You can't see it. It isn't lumps that they can say, 'Oh we can zap that.'

I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.

I've always been a team player.

Stop working so hard at being interesting and focus on what's outside yourself. There are universes out there that need to be explored. And, an interested person is extremely interesting.

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren't real.

I'm basically an actress, not a comedienne, and if something comes along that appeals to me, I'll do it.

All of us are going to die. Every single one of us. So, while you're alive, be alive.

When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.