Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Why should you follow the crowd when God gave you a precious life with the right to live it in any positive way that pleases you the most?

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.