The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

Do not offer help to those who do not want to help themselves.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Can't living with the bill means it won't become law.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

I’d rather just think of everything positively.

We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.