The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

That’s a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That’s like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didn’t get the animal, I would say.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.