I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Skills can be trained, character is inbred.

The law is hard but it is the law.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!