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.

By 1964 Goldie Hawn ran and taught in a ballet school having dropped out of American University where Goldie Hawn was majoring in drama. She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999) a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. 1990s

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21 1945) is an American actress film director producer and occasional singer. She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson.