The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!

Lovers are like kids

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

You can only lead by example.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.