Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Series work is just grueling.

Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

The information superhighway is littered with so much roadkill.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.