I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is generally studied only by advanced students of physics, but Albert had mastered it by the time he was sixteen years old.

Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

I love living in Los Angeles.