Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

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?

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.