New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.