I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

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?

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

I always have a bit of a look, a bit of a frown.

If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.