I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

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?

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

If the present is left unopened, now, it is closed.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

Good & quickly seldome meete.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.