I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

What can you do in order to save your own banks?

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.