I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Love, too, was just a question of time

You see the world in colors, I see in Black and Red.

Believe you are great and you will be great.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

And I've always loved playing solo.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.