We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.