I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

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?

The American Dream became America’s god

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.