The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

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?

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Love is the light that casts no shadow.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.