As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Find the willpower to begin work.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

For the book unwritten is the book burned.