Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

The body cannot take chronic terror

Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event.

India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it?

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.