My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Make peace your purpose in the garden of life.

Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.