There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

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?

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.