I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"

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?

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.