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

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.

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.

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.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

I love variety in my life.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.