If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

I can't sleep without the TV on, so we leave it on during the night, and that's what wakes me up - Joe Scarborough and 'Morning Joe' at 7:30 or 8.

I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my partying.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

I'm done with F1 unfortunately. I'm too old, the train has passed