It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

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?

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Time is but a mode of thought

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.