With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

You actions are your only true belongings.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.

I have to keep testing myself.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.