I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

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?

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

There's a great Lebanese restaurant a few blocks over. They have the best shawarma in the world." "What's shawarma?" "You know what a gyro is?" "No." "Same thing.

Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

Spirits are as real as the powers they personify.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.

Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are.