We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.

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.

It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...

I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers and pathological liars...

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.